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Show iiiiffiFfiyi ARCHANGEL, Wednesday, Aug. 2S. (By the Associated Press.) No trace was found of tho body of the former Emperor Nicholas of Russia when Czecho-Slovak forces captured Yekaterinburg July 26. This Information Informa-tion was brought to David R. Francis, the American ambassador, by a Czecho-Slovak army officer who has arrived at Archangel with dispatches from the American consul at Yekaterinburg Yekat-erinburg after a lorig and perilous trip through two lines of hostile Bolshevik troops. The officer said he had no definite information as to the disposition of the body of the ex-emperor, but the most credited report was that it had been taken to the deepest pit in a coal mine and destroyed. The officer was unable to learn the whereabouts of the deposed ruler's family except that he knew that they had been spirited away. The execution of the former emperor emper-or took place July 16. So far as the officer of-ficer was able to learn the commander of the Yekaterinburg Soviets, who was said to have been a sailor, killed Nicholas Nich-olas with a revolver. Red guards who were commanded to kill their emperor refused as also did a Lettish firing party. Then the commandant drew his own rovolver and shot Nicholas dead. The Czecho-Slovak officer, however, how-ever, heard many other versions of tho affair. The officer declared that the Czechoslovak, Czecho-slovak, Pole and Cossack officers and volunteers formed a great united army I which was making steady progress andj winning battles. Ho termed the Bol- shevik communications to the contrary i as untrue. The people of the villages and towns, he added, Welcomed tho Czecho-Slovak forces withstood and flowers. oo |